Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon)

Info On This Great black & white Occult-Satanic-Horror Movie, In Which Dr. Julian Karswell Is Loosely Based On Aleister Crowley Persona:

Night of the Demon is a 1957 British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, starring Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins and Niall MacGinnis. An adaptation of the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes" (1911), the plot revolves around an American psychologist investigating a satanic cult suspected of more than one murder.
The film's production was turbulent due to clashing ideas between producer Hal E. Chester on one side and Tourneur and writer Charles Bennett on the other. Although the original plan was not to show a literal demon, producer Chester inserted a monster over the objections of the writer, director and star Dana Andrews. To accelerate the pace, the film was trimmed down to 83 minutes (and retitled Curse of the Demon) in the US where it played the second half of a double feature bill with both The True Story of Lynn Stuart and The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958).

Cast

• Dana Andrews as John Holden
• Peggy Cummins as Joanna Harrington
• Niall MacGinnis as Doctor Karswell
• Maurice Denham as Professor Harrington
• Athene Seyler as Mrs. Karswell
• Liam Redmond as Mark O'Brien
• Reginald Beckwith as Mr. Meek
• Ewan Roberts as Lloyd Williamson
• Peter Elliott as Kumar
• Rosamund Greenwood as Mrs. Meek
• Brian Wilde as Rand Hobart
• Richard Leech as Inspector Mottram
• Lloyd Lamble as Detective Simmons
• Peter Hobbes as Superintendent
• Charles Lloyd Pack as Chemist
• John Salew as Librarian
• Janet Barrow as Mrs. Hobart
• Percy Herbert as Farmer
• Lynn Tracy as Air Hostess

Production

Screenwriter Charles Bennett owned the rights to the original story "Casting the Runes" and wrote a script loosely based on it, using the title The Haunted. He sold the script to independent producer and former child actor Hal E. Chester shortly before going to America. Bennett regretted selling the script because on arrival in America, he was approached by RKO who wanted to purchase his script and allow him to direct the film. Actors Robert Taylor and Dick Powell had been in line for the leading roles if this production had taken place.^[1][2][3]
Jacques Tourneur was brought in by Chester on the recommendation of Ted Richmond, the producer of Tourneur's previous film, Nightfall (1957).^[2] However, Tourneur and Chester had serious disagreements during filming. One argument was about the wind scene; Tourneur tried to convince Chester to replace two electric fans with two aeroplane engines. When Chester hesitated, star Dana Andrews threatened to leave the picture if Chester didn't let "the director direct the picture."^[2] Locations for the film include Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire (as Lufford Hall), Stonehenge, Bricket Wood railway station, and the British Museum Reading Room.^[4]
After completion of the principal shooting, producer Chester decided to show the demon at the beginning and end of the film. Tourneur later said that he was against the addition, stating "The scenes where you see the demon were shot without me...the audience should never have been completely certain of having seen the demon." Stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen was requested by Columbia Pictures to create the demon for the production, but was already committed to The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, with producer Charles H. Schneer. Author Tony Earnshaw's book Beating the Devil-the Making of Night of the Demon argues that showing the demon was planned early on in the production (despite Tourneur's protests to the contrary), in order to heighten the tension in the film by letting the audience know the demonic powers were real. Bennett, also angry at the script changes said, "If [Chester] walked up my driveway right now, I'd shoot him dead."^[3]

Release

Theatrical release

The film was released in the United Kingdom for a theatrical run in December 1957.^[5] In Britain, it was released as a double bill with the American film 20 Million Miles to Earth as a double feature.^[5] In the United States, the film was released as Curse of the Demon. According to Charles Bennett, the title was changed as the studio didn't want it confused with the similarly titled story of The Night of the Iguana.^[5] Curse of the Demon toured drive-ins and theatres variously with The True Story of Lynn Stuart and The Revenge of Frankenstein. Columbia cut several minutes of the film for the US release. Cut scenes included a visit to the Hobart family farm, a trip to Stonehenge, and snippets of the seance scenes and conversations between Karswell and his mother.^[6]

Home video

In the United States, the film was released on VHS in 1986 by Columbia TriStar Home Video with a run time of 81 minutes.^[7] A second VHS with a 96-minute running time was released by Goodtimes Home Video Corp in 1988.^[7] In 1988, a Laserdisc of the film was released by Image Entertainment/Columbia Pictures with an 81 minute running time.^[8] A double-bill version with both the UK version of Night of the Demon and the edited US version as Curse of the Demon was released on DVD in August 2002.^[7] In the United Kingdom, Night of the Demon was released on VHS in 1995 by Encore Entertainment/Columbia TriStar Home Video.^[7] The film was released on DVD in the United Kingdom for the first time on 18 October 2010.

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Original UK quad poster

Aleister Crowley - Black Magic Recordings (1910 - 1914)

General Info On Aleister Crowley:

Aleister Crowley (/ˈkroʊli/ KROH-lee; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947), born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast 666, was an English occultist, mystic, ceremonial magician, poet and mountaineer, who was responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. In his role as the founder of the Thelemite philosophy, he came to see himself as the prophet who was entrusted with informing humanity that it was entering the new Aeon of Horus in the early 20th century.
Born into a wealthy upper-class family, as a young man he became a member of the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Subsequently he claimed that he was contacted by his Holy Guardian Angel, an entity he named Aiwass, while staying in Egypt in 1904, and that he 'received' a text known as The Book of the Law from what he claimed was a divine source, and around which he would come to develop his new philosophy of Thelema. He would go on to found his own occult society, the A∴A∴ and eventually rose to become a leader of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), before founding a religious commune in Cefalù known as the Abbey of Thelema, which he led from 1920 until 1923. After abandoning the Abbey amid widespread opposition, Crowley returned to Britain, where he continued to promote Thelema until his death.
Crowley was also bisexual, a recreational drug experimenter and a social critic. In many of these roles, he "was in revolt against the moral and religious values of his time", espousing a form of libertinism based upon the rule of "Do What Thou Wilt".^[1] Because of this, he gained widespread notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as "the wickedest man in the world".
Crowley has remained an influential figure and is widely thought of as the most influential occultist of all time. In 2002, a BBC poll described him as being the seventy-third greatest Briton of all time.^[2] References to him can be found in the works of numerous writers, musicians and filmmakers,^[3] and he has also been cited as a key influence on many later esoteric groups and individuals, including Kenneth Grant, Kenneth Anger, Jack Parsons, Gerald Gardner, Sebastian Frederiksen, Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, The Rolling Stones, Jay Z, and, to some degree, Austin Osman Spare.^[4]

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Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

Aleister Crowley is best today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us on the cover of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.
“The Great Beast” has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.
Using documents gleaned from British, American, French and Italian archives, Secret Agent 666 sensationally reveals that Crowley played a major role in the sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the government of Spain, the thwarting of Irish and Indian nationalist conspiracies, and the 1941 flight of Rudolf Hess.
Author Richard Spence argues that Crowley—in his own unconventional way—was a patriotic Englishman who endured years of public vilification in part to mask his role as a secret agent.
The verification of the Great Beast’s participation in the twentieth century’s most astounding government plots will likely blow the minds of history as well as occult aficionados.
Author Richard B. Spence has been seen on various documentaries on The History Channel and is a consultant for Washington D.C.’s International Spy Museum. He is also the author of Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly (Feral House).

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Love Sex Fear Death - The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment

Info On The Book (from feralhouse site):

Contributions from Sammy Nasr, Edward Mason, Malachi McCormick, Kathe McCaffrey, Laura Merrill, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, and Ruth Strassberg
The Process Church of the Final Judgment was the apocalyptic shadow side of the flower-powered ’60s and perhaps the most notorious cult of modern times.
Scores of black-cloaked devotees swept the streets of New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, New Orleans and other cities selling magazines with titles like Sex, Fear, Love and Death.
The Process’ no-holds-barred theology brought on accusations of sinister conspiracies.
Personalities like Marianne Faithfull, George Clinton and Mick Jagger participated in Process publications, and Funkadelic reproduced Process material in two of their albums.
Love Sex Fear Death — written by original Process Church member Timothy Wyllie — is the first book to provide the astonishing inside story of this fascinating group and the mysterious woman at its center. Included are contributions from six other former members and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
Included are never-before-seen photographs and reproductions from rare Process publications.

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Info On The Process Church of The Final Judgment (from wikipedia):

The Process, or in full, The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a religious group that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by the English couple Mary Anne and Robert DeGrimston (originally Robert Moor and Mary Anne MacLean).^[1] Originally headquartered in London it had developed as a splinter group from Scientology,^[1] so that they were declared "suppressive persons" by L. Ron Hubbard in December 1965.^[2] In 1966 the members of the group underwent a social implosion and moved to Xtul on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, where they developed "processean" theology (which differs from, and is unrelated to process theology). They later established a base of operations in the United States in New Orleans.^[2]
They were often viewed as Satanic on the grounds that they worshipped both Christ and Satan. Their belief is that Satan will become reconciled to Christ, and they will come together at the end of the world to judge humanity, Christ to judge and Satan to execute judgment. Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of the Charles Manson family trial, comments in his book Helter Skelter that there may be evidence Manson borrowed philosophically from the Process Church, and that representatives of the Church visited him in jail after his arrest. According to one of these representatives, the purpose of the visit was to interview Manson about whether he had ever had any contact with Church members or ever received any literature about the Church.
In April, 1974 Robert DeGrimston was removed by the Council of Masters as Teacher. They renounced The Unity, his exposition of the above-noted doctrines, and most of his other teachings. DeGrimston attempted to restart the Process Church several times, but he could never replace his original following. Following DeGrimston's removal, the group underwent a significant change in orientation and renamed itself the Foundation Faith of the Millennium. In 1980 the name of the organization was changed to The Foundation Faith of God. Further changes in both name and focus followed, and the organization eventually became the Best Friends Animal Society, which is now one of America's best known animal welfare rescue groups. Later on, many of these same believers went on to support Gilles Deleuze in his leadership of the Anti-Oedipal movement of 1968.
A detailed account of the history of and life within the Process Church as told by a participant-observer is contained in William S. Bainbridge's book Satan's Power. (He employed a pseudonym for the name of the group, referring to it as "The Power", and disguised the names of people to preserve their identities, a procedure used for sociological studies of living groups to ensure privacy.)

Processean theology

The term "processean theology" distinguishes these ideas from the process theology derived from the thoughts of Alfred North Whitehead.
At Xtul was the first 'channeling' of God. After Xtul, Jehovah was the only recognised God. Later, with Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan were recognised as "The Three Great Gods of the Universe" and Christ as the Emissary to the Gods. The Three Great Gods represent three basic human patterns of reality:

• Jehovah, the wrathful God of vengeance and retribution, demands discipline, courage and ruthlessness, and a single-minded dedication to duty, purity and self-denial.
• Lucifer, the Light Bearer, urges us to enjoy life to the full, to value success in human terms, to be gentle and kind and loving, and to live in peace and harmony with one another. Man's apparent inability to value success without descending into greed, jealousy and an exaggerated sense of his own importance, has brought the God Lucifer into disrepute. He has become mistakenly identified with Satan.
• Satan, the receiver of transcendent souls and corrupted bodies, instills in us two directly opposite qualities; at one end an urge to rise above all human and physical needs and appetites, to become all soul and no body, all spirit and no mind, and at the other end a desire to sink beneath all human codes of behavior, and to wallow in a morass of violence, lunacy and excessive physical indulgence. But it is the lower end of Satan's nature that men fear, which is why Satan, by whatever name, is seen as the Adversary.

In between these Three Great Gods and man, is an entire hierarchy of Gods, beings and superbeings, angels and archangels, demons and archdemons, elementals and guides, and fallen angels and watchers.
The Process believes that, to varying degrees, these "God-patterns" exist within all of us. The main doctrine of The Process is the unity of Christ and Satan, who exist as opposites. Jehovah and Lucifer exist as opposites and when Christ and Satan are united this will unite Jehovah and Lucifer.
In the original 1960s literature of the church, Christ, Lucifer, Satan, and Jehovah were all arranged on a mandala, with Christ at the top opposite Satan on the bottom and Jehovah on the left opposite Lucifer on the right.
(The descriptions of the Gods comes from a teaching called "The Hierarchy" published in December 1967, as a part of "The Tide of the End".)

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Apocalypse Culture II

Info On The Book:

Apocalypse Culture II is a book edited by Adam Parfrey and published by Feral House in 2000 (ISBN 0-922915-57-1). A sequel to his previous work, Apocalypse Culture, it continues the probing of societal taboos, with special attention given to child pornography, cannibalism, terrorism, assorted paraphilia, scatological research, abnormal racisms, misanthropic ecology, and mind control.

Parfrey clarifies, in the preface, that the collection is not a "manifesto or a smorgasbord of personal fetishes or beliefs." "The book was compiled to examine far-reaching and extreme societal tendrils."

It is dedicated to "the memory of Vladimir Jabotinsky 1880-1940." It opens with quotations from Wilhelm Stekel's Sadism and Masochism and Woodrow Parfrey's (the editor's father, imdb entry) death scene as a mass murderer in the Naked City episode, "Burst of Passion".

Unable to find a printer willing to risk prosecution (under the Child Pornography Prevention Act), the book was published with certain illustrations censored. The obscene parts of artwork by Blalla Hallman, Stu Mead, and Beth Love were blacked out, albeit in an incomplete manner. Feral House made the objectionable paintings available for viewing on their website.

Contents

Title	Author	Subjects
Clonejesus.com	Kristan Lawson	Cloning, Jesus
Human Pigs	Robert Knight, Robert Kimbrell, Michio Kaku	AIDS
The Strange Crime of Issei Sagawa	Colin Wilson	Cannibalism
Bottom Feeder	Life Dynamics Inc.	Anti-abortion comic pamphlet
From Cradle to Ladle	Georges LaMort	Recipes for preparing children, infants, and fetuses
For Fear of Little Men	Steven Speer	Homunculi
The Son of a New Morality Which Drowned Many in Her Wake	Michael Moynihan and Marco Deplano	Giusva Fioravanti, founder of the Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari
Bacteriological Warfare	Larry Wayne Harris	Biological warfare
The Conspiracy Virus, and How Mass Media Tries to Prevent It	Jonathan Vankin	"Conspiracy theory"
Techniques for Truth Suppression	David Martin
The Scapegoat: Ted Kaczynski, Ritual Murder, and The Invocation of Catastrophe	Michael A. Hoffman II	The cryptocracy's framing of Ted Kaczynski
America, The Possessed Corpse	James Shelby Downard
The Jonestown Re-enactment	Rod Dickinson	Jonestown
Murder Lite	Sondra London	Serial murder
Joe alt.true.crime	Adam Parfrey, JOE	FAQ about murder lover JOE, his postings on the true crime newsgroup, plus his letter to Danny Rolling
Danny Rolling's Letter	Danny Rolling	serial killer
I Am The Hate	Rosemary Malign	Hateful poem
Roadkill	Jim Goad	Firsthand account of the author's assault of his girlfriend
Hatred and Anger	Charles Darwin	From On the Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals
Dear Satan,		Letters sent to Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan
The Pornography of Romance	Adam Parfrey	Friscon Slash Convention
John Hinckley's Letters and Poems	John Hinckley	Letters to Jodie Foster
Uncle Ronnie's Sex Slaves	Robert Sterling	Cathy O'Brien, Brice Taylor, Sexual slavery, mind control
Ritual Abuse		List of symptoms and syndromes regarding Satanic ritual abuse
Ceto's New Friends	Leah A Haley	Pro-alien abduction children's book
The Private Zone	Frances S. Dayee	Excerpts from a 1982 child sexual assault prevention book
Pedophilia and the Morally Righteous	Chris Campion	Thomas Hamilton
Prime Time	Peter Sotos	JonBenét Ramsey
The Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1995		Orrin Hatch, Dianne Feinstein
The Late, Great Aesthetic Taboos	Ghazi Barakat	Censorship, NAMBLA, Stu Mead, Trevor Brown, Beth Love, Blalla W. Hallman,
The Color Section		The poster for Crispin Hellion Glover's What is it?, paintings by Blalla W. Hallman, Stu Mead, Danny Rolling, and Norbert Cox
Inaugurator of the Pleasure Dome: Bobby Beausoleil	Michael Moynihan	Charles Manson, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Lee, David LaFlamme, Lucifer, Kenneth Anger, biker gangs. Prison rape
My Lips Pressed Against the Decay	Chad Hensley	Necrophilia, Leilah Wendell
The Ketamine Necromance	David Woodard	Ketamine, Near death experience
RealDoll	Adam Parfrey
Who Is the Most Masterful Seducer of Them All?	Adam Parfrey	Seduction, Neuro-linguistic programming
Steps In Overcoming Masturbation	Mark E. Peterson	Masturbation
The New Hermaphrodite	George Petros	Hermaphroditism
Total Body Transplants	John McKenzie (ABCNews.com)
Death By Installments	Peter Cochrane
The Syrup of Memory	Jeffery Lewis
Hi-Tech Market Research	Dan Kelly	Neil Postman, Advertising
Project Blue Beam: The Electronic Second Coming	Wes Thomas	UFOs, Area 51, Strategic Defense Initiative
Bye Bye Miss American Pie As Sung By Aryan Nations	Roy Taylor	Church of Jesus Christ-Christian
Holding Onto Jesus' Feet	David Sereda
Jesus/Lucifer Santa/Satan? The Apocalyptic Parables Of Norbert H. Kox	Adam Parfrey	Nubian Hebrews
The Bleeder	Adam Parfrey, Giorgio Bongiovanni	Stigmata
David and Hitler go to the planet Mars	David	Semi-Retardation
What Is It?	Crispin Hellion Glover	Steven Spielberg
Never Again!	Irv Rubin	Anti-Semitism, Buford Furrow, Jewish Defense League
Jews For Hitler	Adam Parfrey	Richard Green, Magen David, Swastika, Tom Metzger, Bryan Rigg
Were Whites Made by Yacub through Selective Breeding?	Dr. S. Epps	Elijah Muhammad, the White race, melanin
The War of the Balls excerpted from The Isis Papers	Dr. Frances Cress Welsing	Bowling, Golf, Race war
Kill and Kill Again		Ice Cube, Christian Identity, Cheo Choker, Khalid Abdul Muhammed, Lauren Greenfield
Brown Magic	Kadmon
The Fecal Sorcerer	Michael Moynihan	Alchemy
Edible Reward for Dry Pants	Richard M. Foxx and Nathan H. Azrin
The Shit List	Jack's Number Two
Dystopia	Boyd Rice
Mr. Awesome Proves Everybody Is A Star	Adam Parfrey
The Vampire Manifesto	Nicolas Claux	Vampirism
Humanflood	Pentti Linkola / Introduction by Michael Moynihan
Ship of Fools	Ted Kaczynski

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